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Efficient nano-photonic antennas based on dark states in quantum emitter rings

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OPTICS EXPRESS
卷 30, 期 7, 页码 10779-10791

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Optica Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1364/OE.437396

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  1. Austrian Science Fund [DK-ALM W1259-N27]
  2. H2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions (Sklodowska-Curie grant) [801110]
  3. Bundesministerium fur Bildung, Wissenschaft und Forschung

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Nanoscopic arrays of quantum emitters can be used to create highly efficient single photon antennas by adding an absorptive impurity as an energy dump in the center of a ring shaped polygon. A nonagon shape exhibits the highest absorption efficiency, thanks to the matching coupling strengths between the emitters and the center to ring coupling. The antenna ring acts like a parabolic mirror, concentrating incoming radiation at its center.
Nanoscopic arrays of quantum emitters can feature highly sub-radiant collective excitations with a lifetime exponentially growing with emitter number. Adding an absorptive impurity as an energy dump in the center of a ring shaped polygon allows to exploit this feature to create highly efficient single photon antennas. Here among regular polygons with an identical center absorbing emitter, a nonagon exhibits a distinct optimum of the absorption efficiency. This special enhancement originates from the unique emergence of a subradiant eigenstate with dominant center occupation. Only for nine emitters the sum of coupling strengths of each emitter to all others matches the center to the ring coupling. Analogous to a parabolic mirror the antenna ring then concentrates incoming radiation at its center without being significantly excited itself. Similar large efficiency enhancements, which even prevail for broadband excitation, can also be engineered for other antenna sizes by tailoring the frequency and magnitude of the central absorber. Interestingly, for very small structures a quantum treatment predicts an even stronger enhancement for the single photon absorption enhancement than a classical dipole model. As natural light harvesting structures are often based on ring shaped structures, the underlying principle might be exploited there as well. Published by The Optical Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

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